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NGOs/Pressure groups/campaigners are not expected to be unbiased. The opposite is true, in fact. They take positions and campaign for those positions.
Exactly and I totally support organisations like that publishing research - campaigning organisations should be evidence based - but is that true of academics doing supposedly independent research?
It seems like a conflict of interest to me.
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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but what you're saying is that an organization that campaigns for media reform (specifically pluralism, ethical journalism, and the protection of local and investigative reporting) should be ignored when they talk about those things because they are obviously biased towards trying to encourage those things.
NGOs/Pressure groups/campaigners are not expected to be unbiased. The opposite is true, in fact. They take positions and campaign for those positions. They do have other ethical and legal constraints (don't lie, for example), but to imagine a world where Oxfam should be ignored when they campaign against the causes of famine because they have an interest in people not starving to death is strange.